Webmasters are crying out for new and fresh articles, writing an article is the hottest thing on the internet at the moment. It is one of the best and cost effective ways to drive traffic to a website. The great thing is, is that you too can start to cash in on the huge demand for quality articles. You do not have to be a particularly great writer to write good quality articles that will make you money. Here is a list of 12 ways that you can make fast cash from writing articles:

1. Drive traffic to your website

You can put a link to your website at the end of the article to let people who are interested in what you are offering to click on your link.

2. Market affiliates

you can market affiliates by writing a short information articles about the product or service and put a link at the end of the article for the affiliate website. Although to make the link look more professional it would be better to have a domain name of a similar name to the affiliate main website forwarded to your URL link provided by the affiliate.

3. Articles with adsense

you can create a content rich website full of quality information articles that drive traffic to your website. Just register with google and put the google adsense on your article pages to earn money from every click.

4. Write a blog

A blog is short for weblog, you can use your article writing skills to write a blog and drive traffic to your blog site and make money from adsense or promote affiliate programs.

5. Create a mailing list

Give away free articles for subscribing to a newsletter or send them a new articles regularly, once you have captured their names and email addresses, the possibilities are endless, you can promote affiliate programs through your article or direct them to a adsense rich article.

6. eBook

When you have created a number of articles you can put together related articles to create a eBook to sell.

7. Viral eBook

Similar to creating an eBook, but instead of selling the eBook you just give it away for free and within each article in the eBook you will be promoting your affiliates and website, this will spread like wildfire on the internet and is a good money maker for you.

8. Sell your articles on eBay

You can sell your articles on ebay for a minimal price say 99 cents or even cheaper, the objective here is to sell as much as possible to drive people to your affiliate program or website. This will not only create money from selling on ebay but will also make you money by promoting your affiliates or website

9. Sell your articles to webmasters

As I said before people are crying out for good quality articles, webmasters are constantly looking for good quality content to put on their websites. Your can search for discussion forums related to the subject of your article and once you have registered, you can post your offer on the forum. As long as the price is reasonable then webmasters will be more then willing to pay for a good quality article.

10. Give your articles away for free to webmaster

Instead of selling your articles to webmasters, give it away for free to publish on their website to promote your affiliate or website.

11. Submit your articles to directories and ezines

Submit all your articles to as many good quality directories and ezines as you can find, this will create a high level of traffic to your affiliate links or your website.

12. Promote your article writing skills on elance

Once you have some experience of article writing and have got a number of articles under your belt, you can start making bids for article projects on elance and can provide them with examples of your work by sending them your articles that you have written and if they like what they see and the price is reasonable then you will have another opportunity to make money from article writing.